Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released. The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka Gamaredon) and SHADOW-EARTH-066 (aka UAC-0226). It involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal flaw…
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Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open
Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships.
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Russia
UAC-0050 Targets European Financial Institution With Spoofed Domain and RMS Malware
A Russia-aligned threat actor has been observed targeting a European financial institution as part of a social engineering attack to likely facilitate intelligence gathering or financial theft, signaling a possible expansion of the threat actor’s targeting beyond Ukraine and into entities supporting the war-torn nation. The activity, which targeted an unnamed entity involved in regional
AI, Global Security News, Russia
Poland Energy Survives Attack on Wind, Solar Infrastructure
Russia-aligned groups are probable culprits behind the wiper attacks against renewable energy farms, a manufacturer, and a heating and power plant.